Adjectives – Can Nuisance Be Used as an Adjective?

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According to Wiktionary there is a noun nuisance tax. Does this suggest nuisance can be an adjective? Is it?

Best Answer

What you have there is a noun adjunct.

In grammar, a noun adjunct, or attributive noun, or noun premodifier is a noun that modifies another noun, and is optional—meaning that it can be removed without changing the grammar of the sentence; it is a noun functioning as an adjective.

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